12 Years That Shook the World
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Today, Holocaust history shapes aspects of our lives—often in ways we don’t expect. "12 Years That Shook the World," from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, explores the continuing impact of this 12-year history, one story at a time.

Combatants and Protectors

When the Germans invade the Soviet Union in 1941, three Jewish brothers prepare to fight back. Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski hide in a dense forest, a...
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Convinced

All her life, Pauline Kneissler wanted to become a nurse. And in 1939, she is recruited by the Nazis to be a nurse in a secret killing operation. Will...
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Bad Conscience

Hans Scholl, his sister Sophie, and his friends at the University of Munich secretly form a resistance group called “The White Rose.” They distribute ...
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Resister in a Nazi Uniform

Kurt Gerstein, a Nazi SS officer, is asked to supply the chemical Zyklon B to the Auschwitz killing center in 1942. But once Gerstein sees that the ch...
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Accidental Witness

While visiting Vienna, Austria with her family in March 1938, American Helen Baker finds herself caught up in a pivotal moment. She watches as the Naz...
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Season 1 Trailer

12 Years That Shook the World explores stories of real people, the choices they made, and specific moments in Holocaust history from 1933-1945. From t...
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Thousands of False Identities

From an office in Geneva, Switzerland, two friends—a Jewish businessman and the Salvadoran colonel who rescued him—manufactured thousands of false cit...
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Genocide, 1948

“We are in the presence of a crime without a name,” Winston Churchill said in a 1941 speech. At the time of the Holocaust, there was no legal definiti...
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